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CUCM Administration & Dial Plan Mastery

Practical Cisco Unified Communications Manager administration for the engineers who run it every day: provisioning, dial plans, features, upgrades and troubleshooting.
CiscoAssociateOn-demandLive onlinePrivate
4.5 (2 reviews, sample)Supports 350-801 CLCOR

Course overview

This is the job-ready CUCM course. It focuses on the day-to-day tasks that UC engineers are measured on: adding users and devices efficiently, keeping the dial plan clean, delivering features, and fixing issues fast.

It covers CUCM 15 administration, Bulk Administration, LDAP integration, Self-Provisioning, Native Call Queuing, hunt groups, and the RTMT and trace tools you need to troubleshoot.

Who this course is for

  • UC administrators
  • Service desk engineers escalating to voice
  • Engineers inheriting an existing CUCM cluster

Prerequisites

  • Collaboration Foundations or equivalent

Training duration

24 h video + 26 h labs, about 6 weeks at 6–8 hours per week.

What you will be able to do

  • Provision users, phones and Webex App devices at scale with LDAP and BAT
  • Build and maintain partitions, CSS, route patterns and translation patterns
  • Deliver hunt groups, call pickup, Native Call Queuing and shared lines
  • Plan and execute CUCM upgrades and backups
  • Troubleshoot with RTMT, CDR and trace collection

Curriculum

5 modules · 33 lessons

  1. 01CUCM platform and administration6 lessons
    • Services
    • Licensing
    • Backup and restore
  2. 02Users and devices at scale7 lessons
    • LDAP sync and auth
    • Templates
    • BAT
    • Self-Provisioning
  3. 03Dial plan mastery8 lessons
    • Translation patterns
    • Transformation masks
    • Class of service
  4. 04Call features6 lessons
    • Hunt groups
    • Native Call Queuing
    • Pickup, park, intercom
  5. 05Operations and troubleshooting6 lessons
    • RTMT
    • CDR analysis
    • Upgrades

Lab exercises

Hands-on in a browser-based pod. Each lab starts from a clean snapshot.

#LabSkillsTime
1LDAP integration and user provisioningLDAP, feature group templates60 min
2Bulk provisioning with BATCSV imports, templates45 min
3Class-of-service design for four user typesPartitions, CSS75 min
4Build a sales queue with Native Call QueuingHunt pilots, queuing60 min
5RTMT and trace troubleshootingTraces, alerts60 min

Runs on: CUCM Labs, Unity Connection Labs

Certification mapping

  • Supports 350-801 CLCOR
  • Supports 300-815 CLACC
ExamBlueprint domainWeightCovered in
350-801 CLCOR v2.0On-Premises Call Control—Modules 2–4
300-815 CLACC v2.0Dial plan and call routing—Module 3

Your instructor

Daniel Marsh

Sample profile

Lead Instructor, Cisco Collaboration

  • CCIE Collaboration
  • CCNP Collaboration
  • Webex Calling specialist

Daniel has designed and migrated CUCM clusters for global enterprises and service providers, from 500-seat sites to 60,000-user multi-cluster deployments. He writes the CCIE mock labs and leads the live CCNP cohorts.

Free demo lessons

Watch before you buy, no sign-up required.

  • Translation patterns vs transformation masks13 min · preview
  • Native Call Queuing setup in 15 minutes15 min · preview

Student reviews

  • Sample review
    “I use what I learned in this course every single day. The BAT and LDAP labs saved me hours.”
    Chloe D. · UC Administrator
  • Sample review
    “Practical and to the point. Our escalations to the voice team dropped noticeably.”
    Victor N. · Service Desk Lead
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